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When a play enters my consciousness, is already a fairly well-developed fetus. I don't put down a word until the play seems ready to be written.
Edward Albee
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Edward Albee
Age: 88 †
Born: 1928
Born: March 12
Died: 2016
Died: September 16
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Edward Franklin Albee III
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Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.
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There are lots of young vital playwrights who are experimenting, and these are the plays that people who are interested in the theatre should see. They should go off Broadway. They should go to the cafe theatres and see the experiments that are being made.
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Good writers define reality bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.
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Anything you put in a play -- any speech -- has got to do one of two things: either define character or push the action of the play along.
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Good writers define reality bad ones merely restate it.
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One must let the play happen to one one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand.
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Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.
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There are only two things to write about: life and death.
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The most profound indication of social malignancy ... no sense of humor. None of the monoliths could take a joke.
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I'm not responsible for the commercialization. The people who produce the plays are responsible for it.
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If you intellectualize and examine the creative process too carefully it can evaporate and vanish. It's not only terribly difficult to talk about, it's also dangerous.
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By some curious mischance, a couple of my plays managed to hit an area where commercial success was feasible. But it's wrong to think I'm a commercial playwright who has somehow ceased his proper function. I have always been the same thing - which is not a commercial playwright. I'm not after the brass ring.
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Being different is ... interesting there's nothing implicitly inferior or superior about it. Great difference, of course, produces natural caution and if the differences are too extreme ... well, then, reality tends to fade away.
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Every monster was a man first.
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I swear, if you existed I'd divorce you.
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I am pleased and reassured by the fact that a lot of younger playwrights seem to pay me some attention and gain some nourishment from what I do.
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Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.
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Writing has got to be an act of discovery....I write to find out what I'm thinking about.
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When one controls form, one doesn't do it with a stopwatch or a graph. One does it by sensing, again intuitively.
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Influence is a matter of selection - both acceptance and rejection.
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